ARB staking for running a validator + value accrual through sequencer fees

[DisruptionJoe]

veLocking is cool. Here is a mechanism I mention that is similar.

@DisruptionJoe

I’d love to see this. I’m a big fan of Quadratic Weighted Staking.

To utilize governance tokens, $ARB holders would have to stake their $ARB to “charge up” (yes, like turbo in NBA Jam!). Let’s say that staking for 3 months gives your 80% of your governance weight. 1 year would give you 90%. A logarithmic curve.

Flexible Voting would allow people to LP and earn yeild while staking for governance.

It is called “Quadratic” because the voting power is the square root of $ARB tokens held times the “charge up” coefficient. This makes the preferences of many more important than the few.

Additionally, by forcing staking commitments to vote, it creates a natural sybil resistance because bad actors are forced to play into positive sum game theory.

I’d love to propose this to governance sooner than later.